LEARN/CREATE (MT)

NOTE: When the Idaho Legislature is in session, programming on the Learn/Create and World channels may be pre-empted for live coverage from the House and Senate floors.

12:00 pm

Great Conversations"James A. Baker III and John King"
James A. Baker III (former Secretary of State, author of Work Hard, Study.and Keep Out of Politics) and John King (CNN chief national correspondent). D

1:00 pm

French In Action"What A Nightmare!"
Marie-Laure has gone out and not returned. Mireille panics and Robert rushes over to help. Marie-Laure finally turns up with a wild tale about following the man in black into the Catacombs of Paris.G

1:30 pm

French In Action"More Variety, More Riches"
In the garden next to Saint-Germain-des-Pres, our travelers are looking for a theme for their trip. They can't agree, but mention of the cider of Normandy awakens their thirst, and they adjourn to the nearby Cafe des Deux Magots.G

2:00 pm

Unfinished Nation"Battle City"
South needs support of England and France to win war; North needs to maintain status quo. North needs to win militarily; South needs to avoid defeat. Most of American West removed from fighting. Lee appointed commander of Army of Virginia; takes war into Northern territory. Union forces have parade of generals. Battles extremely costly to both sides; Lincoln uses near victory at Antietam to issue Emancipation Proclamation. Both sides resort to draft.G

2:30 pm

Unfinished Nation"Final Stages"
1863 pivotal year in determining outcome of war. Decisive battles at Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Chattanooga. Ulysses S. Grant named Commander of Western Theater for Union after victory at Vicksburg. Material superiority of North begins to make a difference. South devastated by Sherman's march through Georgia. Grant and Meade pursue Lee in Virginia in 1864. Vastly outnumbered, Lee holds on behind fortifications at Petersburg; finally surrenders to Lee at Appomattox Courthouse in April of 1865. In military terms, long war is over.G

3:00 pm

Biography of America, A"New City"
Professor Miller explores the tension between the messy vitality of cities that grow on their own and those where orderly growth is planned. Chicago -- with Hull House, the World's Columbian Exposition, the new female workforce, the skyscraper, the department store, and unfettered capitalism -- is the place to watch a new world in the making at the turn of the century. D

3:30 pm

Biography of America, A"West"
Professor Scharff continues the story of Jefferson's Empire of Liberty. Railroads and ranchers, rabble-rousers and racists populate America's distant frontiers, and Native Americans are displaced from their homelands. Feminists gain a foothold in their fight for the right to vote, while farmers organize and the Populist Party appears on the American political landscape. D

4:00 pm

SciGirls"Bee Haven"
What's the buzz in urban gardens? The SCIGIRLS use math, mapping and data visualization to help a colony of bees thrive in a downtown Phoenix neighborhood. D

4:30 pm

Biz Kid$"A Biz: What Is It?"
You'll see that a successful business supplies goods or services and makes profit when it earns more money than it spends. Meet the junior high school boy who makes healthy dog biscuits, the high school twins with a cake decorating company, and the college student seeking investors for his successful corporation. D

5:00 pm

The Electric Company"Oh Danny Boy"
Hector and Danny join forces in a doubles ping pong tournament. Will they find friendship in victory?. D

5:30 pm

Cyberchase"The Creech Who Would Be Crowned"
The CyberSquad is summoned to Tikiville to stop Hacker from winning a race that would allow him to take over the cybersite. Upon arrival, Matt and Jackie tease Inez about her big vocabulary, so she decides to say just one small word -- "Bye!" She splits from the group and teams up with a Tikiville girl named Creech. Creech considers it her destiny to rule the land her family once ruled for so many years. D

Paint This with Jerry Yarnell"Heaven On Earth, Part 1"
(18x24 Acrylic). Mottle sky, foreground, and painting mountains in this opening segment. Jerry takes his students thru the process of creating a semi-stormy sky, by using a special mottling technique. D

7:00 pm

Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence"Guilty Pleasures"
Joanne confesses to her student Kyle that her favorite food is potato chips, but gives him a healthier oven "fried" version. They are so good, it's hard to save a few to go with their bruschetta blue cheese burgers and blueberry nectarine sangria. Recipes: Oven Fried Potato Chips with Marjoram Salt, Bruschetta Burger with Caramelized Onions and Blue Cheese, and Rose Sangria with Blueberry and Nectarines. D

7:30 pm

Martha Stewart's Cooking School"Fish Monger"
If you love to eat seafood but balk at preparing it at home, you'll welcome this lesson. Dave Pasternack, a renowned seafood chef based in New York City, joins Martha for a beginner's class on buying, butchering and storing fish. They then demystify boning a round or flat fish and cleaning a squid. D

8:00 pm

This Old House"Essex 2012/13, Human Centered Design, and Demo"
Kevin visits the Institute for Human Centered Design and one of architect Sally DeGan's accessibly designed projects; the bad shed dormer is removed at the house, and work starts on a barrier-free entry. D

Travelscope"New Brunswick's Acadian Festival"
New Brunswick is Canada's only bi-lingual province and the peaceful co-existence between the French Acadian culture and the English Loyalist culture gives visitors two experiences for the price of one. Yet all the world's French in August during the Caraquet Acadian Festival -- a two-week cultural celebration that culminates in a mardi-gras style street party. Joseph heads to the Acadian Peninsula to trace its Acadian heritage, meet modern day Acadians and, during their national day of celebration, join in their festival and Laissez les bon temps roulez -- Let the good times roll! During his journey he also partakes of New Brunswick's natural beauty and the world of adventure that awaits every visitor to this Canadian province year round. D

Primal Grill with Steven Raichlen"On The Rotisserie"
Many of the world's great grill cultures cook their best barbecue on the rotisserie. Consider Brazil's rodizio, Greek souvlaki and gyro, and Morocco's majestic mechoui. To judge from your many e-mails, spit-roasting is a live fire cooking method our viewers would like to know more about. D